Purpose – Modern enterprises face a strong economical pressure to increase competitiveness, to operate on a global market, and to engage in alliances of several kinds. In order to meet the requirements and challenges of participating in such alliances, companies must be able to cooperate...

Stable component models are an essential prerequisite for developingcustomer-individual business applications. Thereby the information for theidentification and specification of their components is gained from domainmodels. Reference models constitute a potential source for building...

In this paper, we propose an approach to transform modelsderived by applying the Design and Engineering Methodology for Organizations(DEMO) into an exchangeable format. DEMO is based ona founded theory, the -theory, and satisfies the requirements to be awell defined domain modeling methodology....

Companies are more and more focusing on their core competencies,outsourcing business tasks to their business partners. In order to support collaboration between business partners, adequate information systems need to be built automating inter-organizational business processes. The bases for such...